Unfortunately it is net positive if you count in pensions.

I read economic research few years ago and the few years less for pension is more than enough to offset the healthcare.

Macinka is an idiot.

That being said he plays important role to form the government and at least part of ANO voters expects some reaction that Babiš probably can’t deliver because of that.

It is just lose lose situation right now, do nothing against it - people will protest (and it will have bad outcome), try to confront him and he doesn’t form a government (and will go to prison).

I didn’t expect that the shitshow, everyone saw from far away after the elections, will get that bad that fast.

It depends in what region. I know that in CZ they definitely get it through official government site that tracks closures, roadworks, traffic from monitoring cars and counting gates…

https://dopravniinfo.gov.cz/

I think that if you don’t do the same job at some point in time or have really deep insight in the industry/job, you newer know what he’s doing.

From my work experience I can say that most work tasks I had wasn’t that simple (if I don’t count the “human robot” type summer jobs).

Even some simple sounding job titles hide lot of different tasks most people don’t talk about or even don’t think about.

For example I was brew master in small brewery (3 people including myself) - you would think I was there to only make beer, my boss deals with paperwork, and my colleague is there for maintenance and cleaning. In reality I was more of Jack of all trades - maintanance, planning, cleaning, sanitation, kegging, helped with tasks you wouldn’t think about.

And I think business man covers lots of different tasks that are quite boring so I wouldn’t mind not knowing about them.

That our country will be a shitshow for some time and is heading towards early elections probably next year.

Just sum it up he is convicted of embezzlement of EU funds. So he needed to stay in politics so he doesn’t end up in jail. That is true for other party SPD which is bunch of naci nutheads.

So he needs support from 2 other parties to get majority and because both of them know how desperate he is they want something (ministry seat…). Unfortunately they are completely incompatible with each other so it will be fun.

The president said that he won’t accept any minister that wants to exit NATO or EU.

The way we are heading is the Slovakia or Hungary route unfortunately. But these elections have silver lining - we got rid of Communist party (hopefully) and the pro democratic block is still quite strong (they lost mandates but not votes because of how is it counter and distributed).

So it’s not black and white or complete disaster for EU and our country (which has still strong democracy for now).

https://sopuli.xyz/post/33952595

Here’s the post.

Last week this happened!

I didn’t remember writing the post, nothing offensive I was just asking about good boardgames to play drunk. It was bit surprising seeing the notifications.

Even in some EU countries it’s not required.

At least in my country (CZ) there are more types of companies some have to disclose earnings, yearly economic outcomes… and some don’t have to do it. Even there it is different on how much it is disclosed publicly or only to “shareholders” (owners usually) and how detailed it is.

I think that the biggest problem is the lack of long term thinking and planning. The polarization in politics doesn’t help - every party is trying to say that it is different from the other one so even in the stuff like defense policy is so fractured across the spectrum.

To give you more of an answer than the other guy:

It needs to be national, most of these pesticides are restricted use only. You have to have license to buy it and use it. I don’t know how it works specifically in France but most probably there is some bodie that regulates it use in whole France. It is one market so if it is permitted somewhere it will get everywhere.

Kofola!

To be honest the comparison with Trump is bit harsh.

Because of how fucked up are American politics all the populists and right wing parties are compared to him.

In fact he has closer ties to democrats in USA than to republicans. But that doesn’t mean that he isn’t populist, political chameleon and sometimes in his retorics gets bit to the extreme to catch most possible votes.

If you look at it from the political side that this is the basic idea of liberal democracy.

Everyone votes in their best interest and especially in proportional representation you get some compromise of the interests.

Right now at least in politics people act less in their own interest but more of what they emotionally feel like their interest.

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I have no more Fuchs to give

My Fuchs have runeth dry

I’ve tried to go Fuchs shopping

But there’s no more Fuchs to buy

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After my bikepacking trip I will pitch the interrail to my parents. They are so excited about the places I visited but don’t know how or if they will be able to get there. They (me too) don’t like flying and by car it is just too stressful.

This is bit misconception, pigs are really similar to us and we can get BSE or how is it called in humans (it has several names according to the animal that gets the disease).

The problem why the BSE got out of hand was because they used these parts as feed for another animals.

To be honest I understand the children here. The saving part of me just understand that it is better to use everything.

It’s pretty much the same with pigs, only part that isn’t used is brain.

Pretty good, yes the English is bit non existent there and I liked a bit more Portugal in this.

I left Spain yesterday and now heading to Paris.

No, most people are pragmatic in this case and eastern countries changed from Russian ~30 years ago so another change isn’t coming any time soon.

As my parents saw the change from “it is really appreciated that you can speak English” to “it is expected that you can use it”. I can tell that it is so engrained in our multinational exchange that it won’t be even desirable.

You know in regards to foreign policy of US it is happening for long time, at least since 90’s. What Trump does right now just makes this stuff really obvious for ordinary people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bFs6ZiynSU

From my point of view as a foreigner the US political system is broken and nobody tried to correct it so this was only matter of time. And yes when something like this happens most people just want to get by.